You are not alone!
How Do I Stop Eating Sugar? Just start one day at a time.
I know about sugar addiction and when people attend my class my clients soon realise they are
not the only one. Someone is struggling with something whether it is a glass of wine each night, packet of biscuits, cake, bread, cheese etc.
I have not eaten Cadbury's milk chocolate bars/bags since 28 July 2016. Ha ha yes funny how you remember some dates. The reason I gave up milk chocolate was because I was starting to eat too much of it. i couldn't just have 1/2 chocolates out of a bag I would eat the whole lot. I realised I was eating it as a
comfort or when I became stressed/felt down. I thought chocolate cheered me up. But was it cheering me up! No it wasn't because after I had eaten it I went on that sugar roller coaster, felt ill and felt quite down. SO what was I going to do about it. Personally I think you have to find the right time for you when you want to give something up or make changes. You have to be in that mindset or you won't achieve what you want to do. I was going on holiday for 2 weeks and I knew
that was the right time for me as I was going abroad and I never eat chocolate abroad. The holiday came and went and I was fine. I came home and continued not to eat it. My next step Christmas there was so much chocolate everywhere but I did it and have continued since without chocolate. I admit that Easter is my next hurdle because I enjoy Easter Eggs (who doesn't) and you will laugh but I think they taste nicer. Anyway I am not worrying about it as I know it's one day at a time and
I will see what happens. Now people have said to me but you still enjoy other treats ie I was out Saturday for a friend's birthday and had chocolate cake and yes it was lovely but I can take it or leave it with cake, the odd biscuit, etc I can have a piece and not crave/eat more, but chocolate I didn't I always wanted more. I know now it was a habit and you can break these habits if you want it enough but sugar isn't just in cakes, chocolate etc.
We know how difficult
it can be to avoid sugar.... it's everywhere!
ON everything, hidden IN all sorts of foods which would shock you! (Read those food labels!)
Sugar is - addictive
- fattening
- ageing
- slowing you down
- messing with your hormones
- giving you energy crashes......
Unless you want to be a hermit, socialising & eating out can be tricky.... But not impossible!
When you
understand what is going on in the body when you overload on sugar, it makes it so much easier to make better choices.
“Top Tips To Withdrawing From Sugar” to keep you on track today!
1: Don’t add it to foods. This is the easiest and most basic way to immediately reduce the amount of sugar you’re eating. Biggest targets: coffee and tea.
2: Don’t be
fooled by “healthy sugar” disguises. Brown sugar, raw sugar, agave nectar, stevia & sweeteners.... it’s all pretty much the same thing as far as your body is concerned.
3: Reduce or eliminate processed carbohydrates. Most processed carbs — cereals, breads, biscuits, pastas & snacks, are loaded with flour & other ingredients that convert to sugar in
the body almost as fast as pure glucose. That sugar gets stored as triglycerides - or fat.
4: Watch out for “fat-free” "low fat" snacks.
One of the biggest myths is that if a food is fat-free/low-fat it doesn’t make you fat.
Fat-free doesn’t mean calorie-free, & all fat-free snacks are loaded with sugar, or chemical sugars - keeping you locked into sugar
addiction.
5: Become a food detective.
To reduce sugar you have to know where it is. Start reading labels or better still cook from scratch.
6: Beware of artificial sweeteners.
They can increase cravings for sugar & also deplete the body’s stores of chromium, a nutrient crucial for blood-sugar
metabolism.
7: Do the maths. Look at the label where it says “total sugars” & divide the number of grams by four. That’s the number of teaspoons of sugar you are ingesting. This exercise alone should scare you to death.
8: Limit fruit. Fruit has sugar, but it also has fibre & good nutrients. Just don’t overdo it. Go for
veggies as much as possible and eat local organic fruit that is in season and hasn't been sprayed with pesticides. For fat-loss purposes have a break from fruit for a few weeks and load up on veggies and see your middle shrink.
9: Eliminate fruit juice. It’s a pure sugar hit.
Hope that helps put it into perspective from a health
angle?
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